
One of the best day-trips from Glasgow is our Loch Ness, Glencoe and the Highlands tour. This leisurely journey takes in some of the most dramatic scenery of the Scottish Highlands, visiting haunting Glencoe and allowing the option for a relaxing cruise on the loch.
From Glasgow our Loch Ness tour will travel north, before making a refreshment stop on the shores of Loch Lomond. Travelling the length of the loch, we climb up into the Highlands, over the unique, dramatic landscape of Rannoch Moor and the Black Mount to majestic Glencoe, one of Scotland's most haunting glens, site of 1692 massacre of the MacDonald clan.
If not, we will continue up to the Clansman Hotel where you will have an hour of free time before we begin our return journey to Edinburgh. Here, you can relax in the hotel with an option to take part in a gin tasting provided by Great Glen Gins and receive a 10% shop voucher on our behalf, or, spend your time exploring the area - such as the Old Coffin Road walk that begins at the hotel car park. There is also the option to take a one-hour round trip cruise along the loch, with stunning views of Urquhart Castle.
Continuing via Loch Linnhe, our Loch Ness tour will stop in the Fort William area for lunch then continue into the natural beauty of the Great Glen as we pass beneath Britain’s highest mountain, Ben Nevis. Travelling on, we will arrive in the pretty village of Fort Augustus where you have the chance to cruise Loch Ness (optional extra) or spend time at its shore.
At 24 miles long and 700 feet deep, Loch Ness is most famous for its sightings of the Loch Ness Monster, affectionately known as Nessie.
From Fort Augustus, our Loch Ness tour will start its return for home, crossing the Grampian Mountains and the woodland scenery of Perthshire, including the Forest of Atholl, with an evening refreshment stop at the Victorian resort town of Pitlochry, en route back to Glasgow where our Loch Ness tour ends.